Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Bengali: কলকাতা পৌরসংস্থা) (formerly Calcutta Municipal Corporation) is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Kolkata. The organization is known, in short, as KMC (previously CMC). This civic administrative body administers an area of 185 km2. Its motto, Purosree Bibardhan, is inscribed on its emblem in Bengali script. KMC is headed by Sovan Chatterjee the present Mayor of Kolkata.

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